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48 manuscript pages and two plates showing mirrors, stereoscopes, and optic axes.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture.— Contributions to the physiology of vision.— Part the second. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, phenomena of binocular vision (continued)'.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 15 January 1852.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 6, 1854.

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PT/43/1
Earliest possible date
1852
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Ink on paper
Page extent
50 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Wheatstone

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Charles Wheatstone, Paper, 'Contributions to the physiology of vision. Part the second' by Charles Wheatstone, 1852, PT/43/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_43_1/paper-contributions-to-the-physiology-of-vision-part-the-second-by-charles-wheatstone, accessed on 19 January 2025

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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